I have some news, two items actually.
First, today (it’s still 18th June in California) is my blog’s 8th anniversary!
I wrote my first blog post, about Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting, exactly 8 years ago, on 18th June 2007 and have written 229 blog posts since. I had started writing and accumulating my TPT script collection a couple of years earlier and now it has over 1000 files in it! And no, I don’t remember what all of them do and even why I had written them. Also I haven’t yet created an index/documentation for all of them (maybe on the 10th anniversary? ;)
Thanks everyone for your support, reading, commenting and the ideas we’ve exchanged over all these years, it’s been awesome to learn something new every single day!
You may have noticed that I haven’t been too active in online forums nor blogging much in the last couple of years, which brings me to the second news item(s):
I’ve been heavily focusing on Hadoop. It is the future. It will win, for the same reasons Linux won. I moved to US over a year ago and am currently in San Francisco. The big data hype is the biggest here. Except it’s not hype anymore; and Hadoop is getting enterprise-ready.
I am working on a new startup. I am the CEO who still occasionally troubleshoots stuff (must learn something new every day!). We officially incorporated some months ago, but our first developers in Dallas and London have been busy in the background for over a year. By now we are beta testing with our most progressive customers ;-) We are going to be close partners with old and new friends in modern data management space and especially the awesome folks in Accenture Enkitec Group.
The name is Gluent. We glue together the old and new worlds in enterprise IT. Relational databases vs. Hadoop. Legacy ETL vs. Spark. SAN storage vs. the cloud. Jungles of data feeds vs. a data lake. I’m not going to tell you any more as we are still in stealth mode ;-)
Now, where does this leave Oracle technology? Well, I think it still kicks ass and it ain’t going away! In fact we are betting on it. Hadoop is here to stay, but your existing systems aren’t going away any time soon.
I wouldn’t want to run my critical ERP or complex transactional systems on anything other than Oracle. Want real time in-memory reporting on your existing Oracle OLTP system – with immediate consistency, not a multi-second lag: Oracle. Oracle is the king of complex OLTP and I don’t see it changing soon.
So, thanks for reading all the way to the end – and expect to hear much more about Gluent in the future! You can follow @GluentInc Twitter handle to be the first to hear any further news :-)
